Interested parties can access CEC's Online Education Group's presentation live via an audio-only webcast at CEC's corporate website at www.careered.com. A replay of the presentation will be archived and available 24 hours after the presentation time at www.careered.com for 30 days.

Career Education Corporation (www.careered.com) is the world's largest on-campus provider of private, for-profit postsecondary education and has a rapidly-growing presence in online education. CEC's Colleges, Schools and Universities Group operates 79 campuses in the U.S., Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates and offers doctoral degree, master's degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree and diploma programs in the career-oriented disciplines of visual communication and design technologies, information technology, business studies, culinary arts and health education. The Online Education Group operates American InterContinental University Online and Colorado Technical University Online and offers a variety of degrees in information technology, business, visual communication and education. Total full-time student population of CEC's Online Education Group on April 30, 2004 was approximately 15,600. CEC's total student population on April 30, 2004 was approximately 85,300 students.